The events were originally scheduled for earlier in the month, but moved after the unfortunate PSN downtime. Ye PSN players fiending for action better be ready. Plenty of time to practice your aiming, shooting, riding and racing in single player... and you're prepped to take everyone else to school in multiplayer, right? Time to dominate the competition.

Get on over to the multiplayer events page during both sessions for a live chat, video stream and your chance to win one of several prizes, detailed below. And if you play on PC, join us for the next event in our calendar on Friday June 10th when we'll be taking each other on in Grand Theft Auto IV and Episodes from Liberty City on Games for Windows Live.

OFFICIAL ROCKSTAR PSN IDs Participating PlayStation Network Rockstar Games IDs for this day will be:

PlayRockstar10

PlayRockstar11

PlayRockstar12

PlayRockstar13

Only add one PSN ID to your friends list to play. If you have a different version than the Complete Edition disc for Grand Theft Auto IV, no worries as you will be compatible with us.

SWEEPSTAKESEnter on the multiplayer events page for a chance to win one of 20 prize packs that includes a Grand Theft Auto IV t-shirt, Liberty City license plate, a L.A. Noire t-shirt and assorted stickers.

FINDING US IN-GAME Where's Rockstar? Pay attention to the live chat on the Social Club Multiplayer Events page. We'll announce where we're at in there. We'll begin in Grand Theft Auto IV in GTA Race, and later progress to the two episodes. Use the in-game cellphone to select the mode we're playing during the event.

NEED A PARTNER? For team-based modes such as Team Deathmatch, gather your friends using Party Mode. You can also hit up the chat during the event or just post your PlayStation Network ID in the Comments section below.

ABOUT PARTY MODE Party Mode is an easy way to get your group together and find matches. Here are the three quick and easy steps to get you up and running:

Save your current game. To get started, fire up the in-game mobile phone by pressing "Up" on the keyboard. Select Multiplayer > Party Mode > Yes.

Next, open up your phone again and select the Friends option to invite at least one person into your Party Mode game.

Once your team is ready to roll, open up the in-game phone again and select Games > GTA Race.

OFFICIAL ROCKSTAR PSN IDs Participating PlayStation Network Rockstar Games IDs for this day will be:

RedDeadDev3

RedDeadDev4

RedDeadDev5

RedDeadDev6

Only add one PSN ID to your friends list to play.

SWEEPSTAKESEnter on the multiplayer events page for a chance to win a Red Dead Redemption soundtrack signed by none other than José González (CD or vinyl).

FINDING US IN-GAME Start multiplayer from the main menu. This will place you into a Free Roam lobby. Invite at least one friend and form a posse. Then enter the game mode being discussed by "SocialClub" in the chat. We'll be playing multiple game modes during the event.

HOW DOES FREE ROAM WORK? Free Roam is the hub of your online experience. Supporting up to 16 players, Free Roam allows you to explore with your friends and enemies, take out the gangs of outlaws or launch into more structured gameplay using the markers placed around the world. We'll be forming posses and then heading into several game modes during the evening.

FORMING A POSSE To start the game, invite your friends, form a posse and find Rockstar, follow these steps:

1. From the main menu, press 'Start' and then enter 'Online Multiplayer' by pressing the 'Square' button. 2. Once in a Free Roam lobby, press the 'Select' button to open the in-game multiplayer menu. 3. Press the 'R1' button and then the 'Triangle' button to 'Show Friends'. Invite at least one friend into your posse using the 'X' button. 4. Once your friends are in the game, press the 'Triangle' button again to return to the 'Players' menu and select them with the 'X' button to 'Propose New Posse' or 'Send Posse Invite'. 5. Once you and your friends are ready to go, start up the game mode we're currently playing. We'll announce modes in the chat.

Remember you must have one friend in your posse to play some of the modes with Rockstar. And as stated, pay close attention to the chat to know what game mode we're currently playing.

Look I no longer have a 360 and I don't have the cash or desire to buy another one. Red Dead Redemption is like my favorite game in years and I was playing it religiously up till I no longer had a 360. I had the offline game beaten 100% and was playing online constantly. I have a PC that should be perfectly capable of playing it.

Please. Rockstar, please port this to the PC I will be first in line to preorder it/buy it. (FOR THE SECOND TIME)
GTAIV went to PC. LA NOIRE is PC bound... why did you take my favorite game and deny me a PC version?

Dear RockStar, please make RDR for PC. I every day come on youtube and I watch all gameplay videos :( I live in poor family and can't buy xbox360 :( but if you make it for pc, i can find a little bit of money to buy this game :)

Dear Rockstarwould it be possible for you to release anything about the next GTA because i really am curious as are many other people to were it will be set. I've heard that it might be set in France San Andreas or Vice city. I would love either one of these cities to be the setting of GTA 5.so all im asking for is if the Rockstar community could get so confirmed info on this subject. I'm not asking for much even just one screenshot or a debut trailer something to tell us its on the way. I would also like to know if there is any change of it being revealed at E3 this year?Thank you Rockstar for listening and making the best games around!

Sorry, not sure if my last comment was clear enough but I was being 100% SARCASTIC.

Rockstar offers these XP events in a time period that for the rest of hte civilied world is called "Early morning", if these were put on Saturday or Sunday US time it wouldnt' be a big deal, but condering that most people have to WORK during the weekdays, having events like this is more insulting to international customers who pay already-inflated prices for games and unfair for general multiplayer gameplay, almost as much as offering a OMGWTFBBQ cannon as a payable DLC that just gamebreaks.

I would really like Rockstar to start scheduling XP events regularly on times that aren't the equivilant of flipping off anyone who lives outside the US.

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